Having a lot of fun over at http://flagrantdisregard.com
Loving the flickr plugins!
This is a mozaic of some friends in Hong Kong ...more to come.
Friday, February 10, 2006
Sunday, February 05, 2006
Joel's blog
A friend of mine, after a little persuasion(!!), has joined the blogging sphere. Well done, Joel! http://joelyjoel.blogspot.com
By the way, sorry for the lack of contact recently. Have been away on a business trip and then popped home for 10 days (where I am now). Unfortunately, have been ill all week so had to cancel pretty much every engagement to see all my luuurvely friends.
Back to Hong Kong on Monday. (I hope!)
By the way, sorry for the lack of contact recently. Have been away on a business trip and then popped home for 10 days (where I am now). Unfortunately, have been ill all week so had to cancel pretty much every engagement to see all my luuurvely friends.
Back to Hong Kong on Monday. (I hope!)
Friday, January 20, 2006
Sunday, January 15, 2006
He [Jesus] gives a rest which develops into heaven, and He gives it this day to all who come to Him.
Love this short quote from Spurgeon's "Morning and Evening" available here
Saturday, January 14, 2006
Airplane Adventures
Over the next few weeks Mr Blue Man will be travelling round the world. Starting from Hong Kong he's headed to New York (via Chicago) and then on to Geneva, with a final stop in the UK before he returns to Honkers.
Here with his 'partners in crime', Mr Blue Man gets a little cheeky on a plane to New York.
The flights themselves were a little 'eventful'. Mr Blue Man was unable to go to the toilet because federal law preventing him from relieving himself in cubicles with malfunctioning 'alert' buttons. His in-flight entertainment was also interrupted as the captain switched off the system along with the air cond, reading lights, and other electricals due to smoke from broken equipment. But he took great relief in the fact that the problem did not develop any further. Though he almost spilt his coke over a passenger during a brief bout of turbulence.
His motel "Super 8" in New York does have wireless internet access so he is happy to be able to blog from there as the week progresses. Tomorrow he will be working through the day preparing for important humanitarian aid collaboration meetings next week, and on Sunday he will go sightseeing in New York - more photos then.
Here with his 'partners in crime', Mr Blue Man gets a little cheeky on a plane to New York.
The flights themselves were a little 'eventful'. Mr Blue Man was unable to go to the toilet because federal law preventing him from relieving himself in cubicles with malfunctioning 'alert' buttons. His in-flight entertainment was also interrupted as the captain switched off the system along with the air cond, reading lights, and other electricals due to smoke from broken equipment. But he took great relief in the fact that the problem did not develop any further. Though he almost spilt his coke over a passenger during a brief bout of turbulence.
His motel "Super 8" in New York does have wireless internet access so he is happy to be able to blog from there as the week progresses. Tomorrow he will be working through the day preparing for important humanitarian aid collaboration meetings next week, and on Sunday he will go sightseeing in New York - more photos then.
Friday, January 13, 2006
Self explanatory
Wouldn't mind applying the same logic to my programming one day! But like most things, you have to learn to do it well before saying so!
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Globe trotting...!
...its now been 2 months since I last posted. Doh!
We've just come to the 'end' of a a very busy period at work and I'm exhausted! We've reached a mile stone and now we get to mark it by heading off around the globe for various meetings (my first work-related trip)
Its gonna be a hard trip, lots will be happening, and we'll be busier than ever, (so not much change from the above), but at the same time it will be a different kind of 'busy' and that is somehow refreshing. Its nice to take a break from programming once in a while! (3 months solid slog is enough to finish anyone off!)
So next week we'll be in New York having meetings with the UN and other aid agencies. The week after we'll be show-casing some work at an Aid and Trade conference in Geneva and the week after that I get to go home! Yay! Haven't been home in almost 8 months.
So if you're at home and wanna catch up...drop me a line!
We've just come to the 'end' of a a very busy period at work and I'm exhausted! We've reached a mile stone and now we get to mark it by heading off around the globe for various meetings (my first work-related trip)
Its gonna be a hard trip, lots will be happening, and we'll be busier than ever, (so not much change from the above), but at the same time it will be a different kind of 'busy' and that is somehow refreshing. Its nice to take a break from programming once in a while! (3 months solid slog is enough to finish anyone off!)
So next week we'll be in New York having meetings with the UN and other aid agencies. The week after we'll be show-casing some work at an Aid and Trade conference in Geneva and the week after that I get to go home! Yay! Haven't been home in almost 8 months.
So if you're at home and wanna catch up...drop me a line!
Monday, November 14, 2005
Google risk!
In a comment to a [previous post] Simon mentioned that the barycenter of himself (in Durham) to me (in Hong Kong) is likely to be somewhere over the czech republic. Whilst he's probably not far off and way more sophisicated than Google Earth, I did have a little fun playing around with the measurement tool on the aforementioned program.
It turns out that we're separated by 5,901.17 Miles (that's 5,580,571.57 smoots) give or take a few inaccuracies in my ruler!!
Most of you know I'm a real sucker for anything with a 'global' theme. Hence I've been closely following another Google revelation - Google Maps. The cool thing for programmers is that Google have opened up their mapping software, allowing them to use maps in there programs.
Obviously this has some immediate implications - Housing Maps can now provide a clickable, zoomable, accurate map of their houses for sale in the usa (incidently driven by Craigslist), during Hurrican Katrina people were able to post online information about their whereabouts and the condition of the area they were in - great for worried families, and useful in planning humanitarian response.
But by far the coolest and funnest use I've found so far is Google Risk Its awesome! Not only do you get to play Risk (I love that game!) but you get to do it on a *real* map of the world that you can click and zoom and play with. We're gonna start a mass game in the office sometime thanks to XP's remote desktop feature!!!
Steve is very happy! :o)
It turns out that we're separated by 5,901.17 Miles (that's 5,580,571.57 smoots) give or take a few inaccuracies in my ruler!!
Most of you know I'm a real sucker for anything with a 'global' theme. Hence I've been closely following another Google revelation - Google Maps. The cool thing for programmers is that Google have opened up their mapping software, allowing them to use maps in there programs.
Obviously this has some immediate implications - Housing Maps can now provide a clickable, zoomable, accurate map of their houses for sale in the usa (incidently driven by Craigslist), during Hurrican Katrina people were able to post online information about their whereabouts and the condition of the area they were in - great for worried families, and useful in planning humanitarian response.
But by far the coolest and funnest use I've found so far is Google Risk Its awesome! Not only do you get to play Risk (I love that game!) but you get to do it on a *real* map of the world that you can click and zoom and play with. We're gonna start a mass game in the office sometime thanks to XP's remote desktop feature!!!
Steve is very happy! :o)
Thursday, November 10, 2005
What to do...
This started off as a comment to Harriet's blog post. [ link ] but quickly grew into something more substantial as I realised the depth of my own time management problems. Thanks Harriet!!
Snippet...
Ah yes! I know exactly what you mean. We're running up to a website deadline and there are so many things that people would like me to do. Post-it notes along with a book seem to work ok for me. Problem is, I get so overloaded with things to do that I don't know where to start. The main problem is that stack of email that is filling up in my inbox. Friends emailed me over a month ago and I still haven't replied. I really want to reply, but I want to find the time to do it properly...not just a quick 'hi' email. Plus, I only live a 2 minute walk from the office so I really have little excuse about traveling
People often say that we don't have enough time to do things...but that can't be strictly true because time is a continous thing. One day flows seemlessly into the next.
Maybe we just have too much to do sometimes!
Snippet...
The problem comes when my head becomes so full up of little things that need to be done that I don't do anything, other than try and sort through it. I'm procrastinating now. I should be filling in my UCAS form, or getting my head round my psychology project, or finding the email with Adam's address on so that I can post his birthday present, bought at the time of his birthday.
Adam's birthday was in August.
Ah yes! I know exactly what you mean. We're running up to a website deadline and there are so many things that people would like me to do. Post-it notes along with a book seem to work ok for me. Problem is, I get so overloaded with things to do that I don't know where to start. The main problem is that stack of email that is filling up in my inbox. Friends emailed me over a month ago and I still haven't replied. I really want to reply, but I want to find the time to do it properly...not just a quick 'hi' email. Plus, I only live a 2 minute walk from the office so I really have little excuse about traveling
People often say that we don't have enough time to do things...but that can't be strictly true because time is a continous thing. One day flows seemlessly into the next.
Maybe we just have too much to do sometimes!
Monday, October 31, 2005
For days like these...
"Love should give wings to the feet of service and strength to the arms of labour."
Charles Spurgeon (via a friend)
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